Think your way through the Christmas movie canon. You’ll find a great many heartwarming family stories, maybe even a few stories with darkness on the periphery. But nowhere in your It’s a Wonderful Lifes or A Christmas Carols or Homes Alone will you find even a smidgen of queerness. Which doesn’t exactly come as a surprise. Holiday entertainment has always been focused on things like nostalgia and family, and for a very long time, the American cultural portrait of family, and its frequent nostalgia for it, has been deeply heterosexual and otherwise exclusionary of queer themes.

And so for years, LGBTQ people have been left to read queerness onto straight holiday narratives. Which of the McCallister clan in Home Alone grows up to be gay (the answer is Meghan, Kevin’s sister who scoffs that he’s “totally helpless,” though Fuller is played by Kieran Culkin, so we know he at least grows up to exhibit a plausibly bisexual vibe at the very least)? Or why the Grinch is a secret gay icon (sits at home and bitches about the straight people being too loud and obnoxious before sewing together some quick drag and being unnecessarily bitchy to his best friend). Or you consider Go to be Christmas canon because Timothy Olyphant looks fine as hell wearing a Santa hat and no shirt on.

This drought is why when a movie like 2016’s Tangerine comes along, it is to be embraced. And it was, for a lot of reasons, many of them involving the fact that this slice of life story about a pair of transgender women in Los Angeles, bouncing around town on Christmas Eve, either trying to get a gig or trying to get revenge against a cheating man, starred two trans actresses instead of cis performers as has almost always been the case in Hollywood. Director Sean Baker also reaped a lot of the kudos for the film, so much so that his follow-up, The Florida Project, was seen by a much larger audience (and one that was quite loudly appreciative of it, too).

But today, let’s celebrate Tangerine for what it also is: a secret Christmas movie. Yes, now LGBTQ audiences have our own Die Hard to argue about ad nauseam about whether it’s a Christmas movie or just a movie that takes place on Christmas. And you know what? Tangerine IS a Christmas movie, and not only because we deserve one. Tangerine is a Christmas movie because it is about family. Sin-Dee and Alex are true sisters, and the events of this movie only serve to remind each other of that.

Most importantly, Alexandra’s achingly melancholy rendition of “Toyland” from the Christmas classic Babes in Toyland plants this movie’s roots squarely in Christmastown. This may not be a wall-to-wall Christmas cheer, but honestly, look at where we’re located: Los Angeles. City of balmy December evenings and beachy New Year’s Day celebrations. Nobody is feeling all that festive without the sleigh rides or eight tiny reindeer. And yet that Christmas spirit comes through when Alex is singing “Toyland.” It’s not quite Judy Garland’s “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” in Meet Me in St. Louis, but as the kids are so fond of saying these days, it has the same energy.

So everybody dress up and celebrate our new holiday standard. Shake out your wigs, grab a no-good man by the collar, and drag him onto a city bus. This Christmas, get what’s yours.